Similar Page Checker

<table bgcolor="#F3F3F3" border="1" bordercolor="#808080" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 100%;"><br /><tbody align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td><form action="http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php" method="POST"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana, Arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Similar Page Checker</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana, Arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Enter First URL</b></span><br /><br /><input name="url1" size="60" type="text" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana, Arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Enter Second URL</b></span><br /><br /><input name="url2" size="60" type="text" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" /><br /><br /></form><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><h1><br />How it Works<a name='more'></a></h1><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Web search engine">Search Engines</a> are known to act upon websites that contain Duplicate / Similar content.<br /> </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> Your content could be similar to other websites on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Internet">Internet</a>, <br /> or pages from within your own website could be similar to each other <br /> (usually the case with dynamic product catalog pages).<br /> </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> This tool allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages.<br /> </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> The exact percentage of similarity after with a search engine may penalize you is not known, <br /> it varies from search engine to search engine, <br /> Your aim should be to <b>keep your page similarity as LOW as possible.</b></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><b> </b><br /> </span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> <b><u>Duplicate <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-control_software" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Content-control software">Content Filter</a></u></b><br /><br /> This article will help you understand why you might be caught in the filter, and ways to avoid it.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2><br /><b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_content" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Duplicate content">Duplicate Content</a> Filter: What it is and how it works</b></h2><br /><span class="defaultfont"></span><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br />Duplicate Content has become a huge topic of discussion lately, thanks <br />to the new filters that search engines have implemented. This article <br />will help you understand why you might be caught in the filter, and ways<br /> to avoid it. We'll also show you how you can determine if your pages <br />have duplicate content, and what to do to fix it.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Spamdexing">Search engine spam</a> is any deceitful attempts to deliberately trick the <br />search engine into returning inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality <br />search results. Many times this behavior is seen in pages that are <br />exact replicas of other pages which are created to receive better <br />results in the search engine. Many people assume that creating multiple<br /> or similar copies of the same page will either increase their chances <br />of getting listed in search engines or help them get multiple listings, <br />due to the presence of more keywords.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont">In order to make a search more relevant to a user, search engines use a <br />filter that removes the duplicate content pages from the search results,<br /> and the spam along with it. Unfortunately, good, hardworking <br />webmasters have fallen prey to the filters imposed by the search engines<br /> that remove duplicate content. It is those webmasters who unknowingly <br />spam the search engines, when there are some things they can do to avoid<br /> being filtered out. In order for you to truly understand the concepts <br />you can implement to avoid the duplicate content filter, you need to <br />know how this filter works. </span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"></span></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /></span><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br />First, we must understand that the term "duplicate content penalty" is <br />actually a misnomer. When we refer to penalties in search engine <br />rankings, we are actually talking about points that are deducted from a <br />page in order to come to an overall relevancy score. But in reality, <br />duplicate content pages are not penalized. <br />Rather they are simply filtered, the way you would use a sieve to remove<br /> unwanted particles. Sometimes, "good particles" are accidentally <br />filtered out.<br /></span></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /><div align="justify"><br />Knowing the difference between the filter and the penalty, you can now <br />understand how a search engine determines what duplicate content is. <br />There are basically four types of duplicate content that are filtered <br />out:<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /></div><br /><ol><br /><li value="1"><br /><b>Websites with Identical Pages</b> - These pages are considered <br />duplicate, as well as websites that are identical to another website on <br />the Internet are also considered to be spam. Affiliate sites with the <br />same look and feel which contain identical content, for example, are <br />especially vulnerable to a duplicate content filter. Another example <br />would be a website with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_page" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Doorway page">doorway pages</a>. Many times, these doorways are <br />skewed versions of landing pages. However, these landing pages are <br />identical to other landing pages. Generally, doorway pages are intended<br /> to be used to spam the search engines in order to manipulate search <br />engine results.<br /></li><br /><li value="2"><br /><b>Scraped Content</b> - Scraped content is taking content from a web <br />site and repackaging it to make it look different, but in essence it is <br />nothing more than a duplicate page. With the popularity of blogs on the<br /> internet and the syndication of those blogs, scraping is becoming more <br />of a problem for search engines.<br /></li><br /><li value="3"><br /><b>E-Commerce Product Descriptions</b> - Many <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/E-Commerce" rel="wikinvest" target="_blank" title="E-Commerce">eCommerce</a> sites out there <br />use the manufacturer's descriptions for the products, which hundreds or <br />thousands of other eCommerce stores in the same competitive markets are <br />using too. This duplicate content, while harder to spot, is still <br />considered spam.<br /></li><br /><li value="4"><br /><b>Distribution of Articles</b> - If you publish an article, and it gets<br /> copied and put all over the Internet, this is good, right? Not <br />necessarily for all the sites that feature the same article. This type <br />of duplicate content can be tricky, because even though Yahoo and MSN <br />determine the source of the original article and deems it most relevant <br />in search results, other search engines like <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG" rel="googlefinance" target="_blank" title="NASDAQ: GOOG">Google</a> may not, according <br />to some experts.<br /></li><br /></ol><br /><div align="justify"><br />So, how does a search engine's duplicate content filter work? <br />Essentially, when a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Web crawler">search engine robot</a> crawls a website, it reads the <br />pages, and stores the information in its database. Then, it compares <br />its findings to other information it has in its database. Depending <br />upon a few factors, such as the overall relevancy score of a website, it<br /> then determines which are duplicate content, and then filters out the <br />pages or the websites that qualify as spam. Unfortunately, if your <br />pages are not spam, but have enough similar content, they may still be <br />regarded as spam. <br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />There are several things you can do to avoid the duplicate content <br />filter. First, you must be able to check your pages for duplicate <br />content. Using our <a href="http://helpsblogging.blogspot.com/2013/03/similar-page-checker.html" target="_blank">Similar Page Checker</a>,<br /> you will be able to determine similarity between two pages and make <br />them as unique as possible. By entering the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Uniform resource locator">URLs</a> of two pages, this <br />tool will compare those pages, and point out how they are similar so <br />that you can make them unique.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />Since you need to know which sites might have copied your site or pages,<br /> you will need some help. We recommend using a tool that searches for <br />copies of your page on the Internet: <a href="http://www.copyscape.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.copyscape.com</a>.<br /> Here, you can put in your web page URL to find replicas of your page <br />on the Internet. This can help you create unique content, or even <br />address the issue of someone "borrowing" your content without your <br />permission.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />Let's look at the issue regarding some search engines possibly not <br />considering the source of the original content from distributed <br />articles. Remember, some search engines, like Google, use link <br />popularity to determine the most relevant results. Continue to build <br />your link popularity, while using tools like <a href="http://www.copyscape.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.copyscape.com</a><br /> to find how many other sites have the same article, and if allowed by <br />the author, you may be able to alter the article as to make the content <br />unique.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />If you use distributed articles for your content, consider how relevant <br />the article is to your overall web page and then to the site as a whole.<br /> Sometimes, simply adding your own commentary to the articles can be <br />enough to avoid the duplicate content filter; the <a href="http://helpsblogging.blogspot.com/2013/03/similar-page-checker.html" target="_blank">Similar Page Checker</a><br /> could help you make your content unique. Further, the more relevant <br />articles you can add to compliment the first article, the better. <br />Search engines look at the entire web page and its relationship to the <br />whole site, so as long as you aren't exactly copying someone's pages, <br />you should be fine.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />If you have an eCommerce site, you should write original descriptions <br />for your products. This can be hard to do if you have many products, <br />but it really is necessary if you wish to avoid the duplicate content <br />filter. Here's another example why using the <a href="http://helpsblogging.blogspot.com/2013/03/similar-page-checker.html" target="_blank">Similar Page Checker</a><br /> is a great idea. It can tell you how you can change your descriptions <br />so as to have unique and original content for your site. This also <br />works well for scraped content also. Many scraped content sites offer <br />news. With the Similar Page Checker, you can easily determine where the<br /> news content is similar, and then change it to make it unique.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />Do not rely on an affiliate site which is identical to other sites or <br />create identical doorway pages. These types of behaviors are not only <br />filtered out immediately as spam, but there is generally no comparison <br />of the page to the site as a whole if another site or page is found as <br />duplicate, and get your entire site in trouble.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />The duplicate content filter is sometimes hard on sites that don't <br />intend to spam the search engines. But it is ultimately up to you to <br />help the search engines determine that your site is as unique as <br />possible. By using the tools in this article to eliminate as much <br />duplicate content as you can, you'll help keep your site original and <br />fresh.<br /></div><br /></span> </span><br /><br /><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><br /><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=c4812747-f15a-47da-84cb-4fe4c19e8dab" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div><br />

Similar Page Checker

Similar Page CheckerEnter First URLEnter Second URLHow it Works Search Engines are known to act upon websites that contain Duplicate / Similar content. Your content could be similar to other websites…

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Search Engine Spider Simulator

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><center><br /><table bgcolor="#F3F3F3" border="1" bordercolor="#808080" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 172px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 100%;"><br /><tbody align="center"><br /><tr align="center"><br /><td><form action="http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php" method="POST"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana, Arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Web crawler">Search Engine Spider</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Simulation">Simulator</a></b></span><br /><br /><span class="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Verdana, Arial";"><b>Enter <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Uniform resource locator">URL</a> to Spider</b></span><br /><br /><input name="url" size="60" type="text" /><br /><br /><input name="submit" type="hidden" value="submit" /><br /><br /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" /></form><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /></center><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b><span style="color: black;">How it Works</span></b><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> A lot of Content and Links displayed on a webpage may not actually <br /> be visible to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Web search engine">Search Engines</a>, eg. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Adobe Flash">Flash</a> based content, <br /> content generated through javascript, <br /> content displayed as images etc.<br /><br /> </span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> </span><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br /> This tool Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents <br /> of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it. <br /> </span></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> </span></span><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br /> It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) <br /> by a Search Engine when it visits the particular webpage.<br /> </span></span></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> <div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /> <u><b>See Your Site With the Eyes of a Spider</b></u><br /><br /> The article explains how Search Engines view a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Web page">Webpage</a>.</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /><br /></div><br /></span></span></span><br /><br /><h1><br /><span style="color: #003366;">See Your Site With the Eyes of a Spider</span></h1><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"></span></span></span><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br /></span></span></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br /></span></span></span><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br /></span></span></span></div><br /><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><span class="defaultfont"><br /><span class="defaultfont">Making efforts to optimize a site is great but what counts is how<br />search engines see your efforts. While even the most careful<br />optimization does not guarantee tops position in search results, if<br />your site does not follow basic <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.zemanta.com/related-blog-posts/" rel="zemantacom" target="_blank" title="related articles">search engine optimisation</a> truths, then it is more than<br />certain that this site will not score well with search engines. One<br />way to check in advance how your <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.zemanta.com/related-blog-posts/" rel="zemantacom" target="_blank" title="related articles">SEO</a> efforts are seen by search<br />engines is to use a <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php" target="_blank">search<br />engine simulator</a>. <br /></span><br /><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br /><h4><br />Spiders Explained</h4><br />Basically all search engine <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Spider">spiders</a> function on the same principle<br />– they crawl the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.2325,6.045&spn=0.01,0.01&q=46.2325,6.045%20(World%20Wide%20Web)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="World Wide Web">Web</a> and index pages, which are stored in a<br />database and later use various algorithms to determine page ranking,<br />relevancy, etc of the collected pages. While the algorithms of<br />calculating ranking and relevancy widely differ among search engines,<br />the way they index sites is more or less uniform and it is very<br />important that you know what spiders are interested in and what they<br />neglect. <br /><br /><br /><br />Search engine spiders are robots and they do not read your pages<br />the way a human does. Instead, they tend to see only particular stuff<br />and are blind for many extras (Flash, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>) that are intended<br />for humans. Since spiders determine if humans will find your site, it<br />is worth to consider what spiders like and what don't.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h4><br /><span class="defaultfont">Flash, JavaScript, Image Text or Frames?!</span></h4><br /><span class="defaultfont"><br />Flash, JavaScript and image text are NOT visible to search<br />engines. Frames are a real disaster in terms of SEO ranking. All of<br />them might be great in terms of design and usability but for search<br />engines they are absolutely wrong. An incredible mistake one can make<br />is to have a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Adobe Flash">Flash intro</a> page (frames or no frames, this will hardly<br />make the situation worse) with the keywords buried in the animation.<br />Check with the <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php" target="_blank">Search<br />Engine Spider Simulator</a> tool a page with Flash and images (and<br />preferably no text or inbound or outbound hyperlinks) and you will<br />see that to search engines this page appears almost blank. <br /><br /><br /><br />Running your site through this simulator will show you more than<br />the fact that Flash and JavaScript are not SEO favorites. In a way,<br />spiders are like text browsers and they don't see anything that is<br />not a piece of text. So having an image with text in it means nothing<br />to a spider and it will ignore it. A workaround (recommended as a SEO<br />best practice) is to include meaningful description of the image in<br />the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Alt attribute">ALT attribute</a> of the <img /> tag but be careful not to use<br />too many keywords in it because you risk penalties for keyword<br />stuffing. ALT attribute is especially essential, when you use links<br />rather than text for links. You can use ALT text for describing what<br />a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_animation" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Flash animation">Flash movie</a> is about but again, be careful not to trespass the line<br />between optimization and over-optimization. <br /><br /><br /><br /><h4><br />Are Your <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hyperlink">Hyperlinks</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Web crawler">Spiderable</a>?</h4><br />The search engine spider simulator can be of great help when<br />trying to figure out if the hyperlinks lead to the right place. For<br />instance, link exchange websites often put fake links to your site<br />with _javascript (using mouse over events and stuff to make the link<br />look genuine) but actually this is not a link that search engines<br />will see and follow. Since the spider simulator would not display<br />such links, you'll know that something with the link is wrong. <br /><br /><br /><br />It is highly recommended to use the <noscript> tag, as<br />opposed to _javascript based menus. The reason is that _javascript<br />based menus are not spiderable and all the links in them will be<br />ignored as page text. The solution to this problem is to put all menu<br />item links in the <noscript> tag. The <noscript> tag can<br />hold a lot but please avoid using it for link stuffing or any other<br />kind of SEO manipulation. <br /><br /><br /><br />If you happen to have tons of hyperlinks on your pages (although<br />it is highly recommended to have less than 100 hyperlinks on a page),<br />then you might have hard times checking if they are OK. For instance,<br />if you have pages that display “403 Forbidden”, “<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="HTTP 404">404<br />Page Not Found</a>” or similar errors that prevent the spider from<br />accessing the page, then it is certain that this page will not be<br />indexed. It is necessary to mention that a spider simulator does not<br />deal with 403 and 404 errors because it is checking where links lead<br />to not if the target of the link is in place, so you need to use<br />other tools for checking if the targets of hyperlinks are the<br />intended ones. <br /><br /><br /><br /><h4><br />Looking for Your Keywords</h4><br />While there are specific tools, like the <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-playground.php" target="_blank">Keyword<br />Playground</a> or the <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/website-keyword-suggestions.php" target="_blank">Website<br />Keyword Suggestions</a>, which deal with keywords in more detail,<br />search engine spider simulators also help to see with the eyes of a<br />spider where keywords are located among the text of the page. Why is<br />this important? Because keywords in the first paragraphs of a page<br />weigh more than keywords in the middle or at the end. And if keywords<br />visually appear to us to be on the top, this may not be the way<br />spiders see them. Consider a standard Web page with tables. In this<br />case chronologically the code that describes the page layout (like<br />navigation links or separate cells with text that are the same<br />sitewise) might come first and what is worse, can be so long that the<br />actual page-specific content will be screens away from the top of the<br />page. When we look at the page in a browser, to us everything is fine<br />– the page-specific content is on top but since in the HTML<br />code this is just the opposite, the page will not be noticed as<br />keyword-rich. <br /><br /><br /><br /><h4><br />Are Dynamic Pages Too Dynamic to be Seen At All</h4><br />Dynamic pages (especially ones with question marks in the URL) are<br />also an extra that spiders do not love, although many search engines<br />do index dynamic pages as well. Running the spider simulator will<br />give you an idea how well your dynamic pages are accepted by search<br />engines. Useful suggestions how to deal with search engines and<br />dynamic URLs can be found in the <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls-article-3.php" target="_blank">Dynamic<br />URLs vs. Static URLs</a> article. <br /><br /><br /><br /><h4><br />Meta Keywords and Meta Description</h4><br />Meta keywords and meta description, as the name implies, are to be<br />found in the <META> tag of a HTML page. Once meta keywords and<br />meta descriptions were the single most important criterion for<br />determining relevance of a page but now search engines employ<br />alternative mechanisms for determining relevancy, so you can safely<br />skip listing keywords and description in Meta tags (unless you want<br />to add there instructions for the spider what to index and what not<br />but apart from that meta tags are not very useful anymore). <br /></span><br /><br /> source: http://www.webconfs.com/spider-view-article-9.php</span></span></span></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><br /><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=c4812747-f15a-47da-84cb-4fe4c19e8dab" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div><br />

Search Engine Spider Simulator

Search Engine Spider SimulatorEnter URL to SpiderHow it Works A lot of Content and Links displayed on a webpage may not actually be visible to the Search Engines, eg. Flash based content,  content ge…

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